Hey guys. Heres a rough first edition of something I've been working on for some time now.

Essentially I found a hole in wdtv firmwares that allows me to run an arbitrary firmware off usb. I've known about it for a long while, but it only got attractive enough to utilize a few releases ago. Now it is what I call 'homebrew mode'

The homebrew kit contains a README with instructions. Heres a quick rundown- edit the file with your media players ip- run the script to put your player into homebrew mode- confirm player is in homebrew mode- place the files from the other dir onto a usb device, along with wdlxtv-palace.bin- connect it to your media player- reboot the media player- leave the usb device attached : the firmware runs off usb

This firmware is the first version of what might as well be called wdlxtv next gen, or something. I've taken buildroot and integrated all the packages for the firmware and compiled everything from source with the best optimizations using a newer compiler. This means newer glibc. Also means newest rtorrent, nzbget, php, nginx, etc. It also means easier package updating and building, etc.

The sigma bits since they are compiled against antiquated libs in some cases are sandboxed off in /usr/local/wd/lib & /usr/local/wd/bin and every bin has an accompanying script which sets the variables required to force any special lib versions to be used from /usr/local/wd/lib before system libs. This allows the old stuff to live in one spot and not affect the newer libs in the main system.

A lot of stuff works so far, a handful more things I've fixed since I made this image last weekend. Heres what does work:- youtube- shoutcast- netflix- nfs- dlna- ftpd- rtorrent- nzbget- nzbgetweb- windows network shares- ssh client & daemon- homebrew kit compatible

I don't have much time during the week anymore, but I'll be working on this weekends trying to get everything smooth. Your help is appreciated.

A lot still has to be done

I'll be publishing my full git tree somewhere, soon. With any luck wdlxtv-live & wdlxtv-plus will both be built this way soon.

--edit--Bug priorities:1) umsp2) wifi

TO UNDOI have fixed the exploit working in version 0.0.2 of the firmware, but the important part does not work. That being the actual homebrew/stockify commands. Therefore a mechanism is included (new bootstock command) in the v2 homebrew kit that sets a flag on usb which boots a firmware called root.bin-stock on the next boot. This root.bin-stock allows you to do the various homebrew/stockify commands, test, and/or fully reset your media player to stock mode. The root.bin-stock is booted once, on subsequent reboots wdlxtv-palace is booted into again.

so I thought vudu movies was workingbut it seems it does not survive a reboot or even a soft power off/on

I think something with the hashes storedi.e. it creates the hashes finebut I'd guess it's not properly decrypting them when vudu starts

vudu creates the file /conf/vudu-json-settings.txt

Error message on screen: read error 3this error does allow you to exit vuduError message on screen: invalid device idthis error does not allow you to exit, only option is pull the power cord, remote is unresponsive

also note you can only have 5 activated devices at a timeeach time you do this, vudu thinks you've registered a new deviceattampt #6 will require you to login from computer and de-activate devices

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I've been a long time lurker since purchasing my Live Plus shortly after it's release, but this development announcement prompted me to sign-up & make my first post to congratulate b-rad (what an achievement!).WDLXTV has always been a homebrew mod I've wanted to try, but have yet to do so.But this method will make me take the plunge if (hopefully) he's able to make WDLXTV-Palace (Gen2) available for the Live Plus as stated.Eagerly awaiting...